Arthur wastall



(No Model.)

A. WASTALL. AERIAL CRADLE CDT.

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WITNESSES Unrrnn STATES PATENT @rrrcn.

ARTHUR WVASTALL, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO HELEN DENSMORE AND EMMET DENSMORE, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

AERIAL CRADLE-COT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 505,797,

Application filed July 5, 1893.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ARTHUR WASTALL, 2.

citizen of Great Britain, residing at Chicago, in thecounty of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Aerial Cradle-Cots, of which the following is a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawlugs.

My invention relates to swinging cradles or cots, and has for its object to furnish an aerial shall nowprocced to fully describe and afterward particularly point out in the claims.

In the drawings-Figure 1 is a perspective view of myinvention having a net cover and shade curtain thereon. Fig. 2 is a similar view with the net cover and shade curtain removed. Fig. 3 is a view in side elevation of the four legs folded together. Fig. 4 is a vertical section through the upper portion of structure including the suspending hook and all the parts above it. Fig. 5 is a perspective view of a portion of the telescoping upper ring or frame of the cradle-cot. Fig. 6 is a perspective view of a portion of the upper suspension ring showing one of the double eye swivel rods passing therethrough.

Like letters of reference mark the same parts wherever they occur in the various figures of the drawings.

Referring to the drawings by letter A A A A are the legs, each of which is turned upward and outward at its bottom, and at the turn provided with a spur or point aprojecting downward to engage the floor or earth upon which the cradle is to be set up, to pre vent the legs from spreading Each leg is composed of two parts a 0. which partly telescope the one in the other and are provided with suitable means (such as a set screw a to hold them at any given adjustment. By this means the legs may be taken apart and dated September 26, 1893.

Serial No. 479,573- (No model.)

compactly arranged for storage or transportation, while the securingscrewpermits of the independent adjustment of each of the legs to raise or lower the cradle or to compensate for any unevenness of the surface upon which the frame is set up. Each leg A is provided with a vertically arranged hole or perforation near its upper end through which passes 'a bolt 13 by means of which the legs are so cured together, the nut O which acts in conjunction with said bolt B being formed as an ornamental top piece of any desired configuration, and a suitable ornamental piece 0', acting as a washer, being inserted between the nut and the legs. The bolt Bhas its head I) at its lower end, said head being provided witha suspending hook D which is provided with a pin d and is so formed with parallel sides as to prevent any lateral swinging of a flat ring E which is hung upon the pin 01 and supports all of the swinging parts, such swinging parts being readily movable in the line of the head and foot of the-cradle. The ring E has two eyes e at its lower sides, in which are secured four supporting chains or braces F, said braces being secured at their lower ends to the upper eyes 9 of double eye rods G, which pass through a suspension ring -H, being so arranged therein as to permit themto swivel or turn, in order to prevent kinking or tangling of the braces F, or the diverging spring supports Iwhich engage in the lower eyes g of the eye rod G below the ring H. The supports I referred to consist of spiral springs i which are secured in the lower eyes 9; Suitable links or rods z" (one or more as desired) have their upper ends attached to the lower ends of the spiral springs and their lower ends are attached to eye-rods swiveled in the upper ring J of the frame of the cradle or cot. This upper ring J is made of two telescoping sections j j whereby the length of the cradle may be increased as the child grows, or a single cradle may be adjusted in length to suit different sized children. The telescoping section j is the outer one and its ends are longitudinally split at 70. One side of the split is provided with a side lughaving a threaded eye It and the lug on the other side of the split has a plain eye 10 A screw K passes through the eye 10 and its threads engage the threads of the eye is so that by turning the screw the two sections may be rigidly held in any adjusted position. The lower ring L of the cradle might be made similarly adjustable, but in this instance is not so shown. The bottom is formed of metal slats or springs of any desired construction secured to the lower ring, and the body M of the cradle is formed of flexible extensible material such as the netting shown, whereby it is light and Well ventilated and will readily adapt itself to any adjustment of the frame.

From the foregoing it will be obvious that all the objects sought are attained in my construction. The folding and adjusting of the legs, and the provision of a cradle or cotbody with adjustable frame and flexible body permit the packing of the whole structure into a very small compass when it is desired to transport it or to store it. The manner of mounting the legs on a single pivotal, securing scre'w at the top admits of thelegs being spreadto the angles of asquare or rectangle according as the space in which it is to be 'put up is shaped, thus permitting the setting up of the cot in a room on a lawn, or ship board or in. a narrow hall or passageway with equal facility. The provision of the flat hook with the pivot pin through it, in conjunction with the flat suspension ring, gives free movemovement which w every movement of the child andwill, when the cradle is started to move up and down, cause a continuation of this natural movement which is a close imitation of the movement of the child in the mothers arms, for a long period of time.

In order to protect the child from flies, mosquitoes and other insects, I provide a canopy N of netting, under the ornamental top piece, and provided with securing strings or ribbons n at that point, and with similar strings or ribbons n 'n at lower points, so that the whole structure is covered and tion is permitte When the cradle is set up in a position exposed to drafts of air, or sun or other bright light, likely to injure the child or disturb it in any way, I provide an opaque protector P, madesubstantially of the form of one half of the canopy, which can be laid over the exposed side, thus effectually protecting it.

gathered at the top to fit around protected while freeventila-' I propose, when desired, to place nettings around the cradle supporting chains to prevent cats from entering the cradle, as well as to obviate all danger of the child falling out.

Having thus fully described my invention, what lclaim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

I. In combination, the divergent legs, the central uniting bolt and nut, the flat hook formed on the bolt head and having the transverse pin, and the flat ring engaging the transverse pin in the bolt hook and supportingthe swinging parts as set forth.

2. In combination, the divergent legs, the central uniting bolt and nut, the flat hook on the bolt, the flat ring engaging in said hook and provided. with eyes at the bottom, the

four braces secured in said eyes the supporting ring, carried by said, braces and'thespring supported cradle'suspended from saidring as Set forth.

3. In combination, the flat suspending ring, the four'downwarddiverging bracesisecnred thereto at their upper ends, the horizontal suspending ring, the double eye rods swiveled through said ring,.and thespring cradle supports,.the lower ends of the downward diverging braces engaging the upper eyes of. said eye rods, and the spring cradle supports engaging the lower eyes there0f ssfetforth.

4. In combination a cradle-cot bodyr nspending chains therefor converging upward, a suspending ring at their upper ends upward converging supports forsaid ring,;and doubleeyed swiveled bolts through thesuspending ring, the ring supports engaging the upper eyes, and the cradle supports engaging the lower eyes asset forth.

5. The combinationof a cradle-.cot-and its spring hangers, a supporting structure therefor consisting of adjustabledivergent,legs,-a bolt passed through the upper end of-said legs and an ornamental nut and washernpon said bolt, with-a canopy nettingcovering the structure and in engagement therewith under said nut and washer, and an adjustable opaque curtain upon said canopy substantially-as and for the purpose described.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence oftwo witnesses.

ARTHUR I WAS'DALL. Witnesses:

E. E. MASSON, A. B. DEGGES. 

